“…Among the eligible articles, 31 were from China, 3 from Japan and 1 from Czech Republic. In the including 34 studies, 29 articles analyzed the relationship between the expression of lncRNAs and gender[16–20, 24–29, 31, 32, 34–37, 39–46, 48–51], 7 studies estimated the association between lncRNAs and tumor size[19, 24, 25, 27, 41, 42, 48], 16 studies estimated the association between lncRNAs and tumor differentiation[16, 17, 19, 24, 25, 28, 29, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 48], 24 studies were about lymph node metastasis(LNM)[16–20, 26, 27, 29–32, 34–37, 39, 40, 42–46, 48, 50], and 20 were about distant metastasis[16, 18–20, 25, 27–29, 35–37, 39, 40, 42–46, 48, 50], 18 studies demonstrated that lncRNAs were correlated with TNM stage[…”